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buster00 wrote:

SilentBobX wrote:

buster00 wrote:

Finally, someone who remembers the golden age Sandman.

This is the Sandman movie I want. Get Jackie Earl Haley to play him and I'm sold.

Mahalo

Neil Gaiman wrote:“I think it’s probably some kid who, right now, is around 26-years-old. He may or may not have directed his first movie, but he loves ‘Sandman’ and he has the same amount of dedication to the material that (director) Peter Jackson had to ‘Lord of the Rings’ and Sam Rami had to ‘Spider-Man.’”

TheButcher wrote:From /film:
Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ Moving to TV

TheButcher wrote:, Possibly With ‘Supernatural’ Creator Eric Kripke on Board

Moriarty wrote:Way back in the early days of Ain't It Cool, I wrote an impassioned plea against the direction Warner Bros. was heading in development on a "Sandman" film for producer Jon Peters. It was basically a toxic rant about a draft by William Farmer for Peters, and it was such a bizarre, horrifying misfire that I went a little over the top. In the years since, I've spoken to many filmmakers who would love to take a shot at the material, and they've all acknowledged the same fear... that they would screw it up and displease Neil Gaiman. No one wants to be that person, or at least none of the people I spoke with want to be that person. And that's great.

Today, when Borys Kit and James Hibberd broke the story today, I glanced at it and thought Kripke already had the gig, but now it looks like they're actually still meeting with people to try and find the right fit, with Kripke merely the guy at the top of the potential list for the moment. What I really respect about "Supernatural" is how good they got at the art of building a season, something that I think is essential in serialized storytelling. With "Sandman," you've got amazing potential season arcs lurking in there, and I don't think it's as easy as just saying, "One graphic novel, one season." A really smart showrunner is going to feel free to take the material and completely explode it before putting it back together in the shape of a TV show. And they're going to know that they don't have to reinvent anything... they've got this outstanding source to draw on, and the gig is more about curating. Finding the best way to translate what makes the comic great to the screen.

Whatever happens, I hope Warner Bros. moves cautiously here and really finds the right match. In those hands, "Sandman" could be the next great TV obsession, and a wealth of material for years to come.

TheButcher wrote:Joseph Gordon-Levitt Could Be Morpheus In The SANDMAN Movie
As written by David Goyer.

Al Shut wrote:The most important question obviously is Sandman East or Sandman West



I refuse to accept any other

“If I had control over Sandman, which I do not, because I signed the deal when I was 26, and I knew what I was getting into. The trouble with Warners, and I don’t blame them for it, is they know that Sandman is one of the jewels in their crown — and they know that with the jewels in your crown, you make movies out of them,” says Gaiman. “And they know they have Batman. ‘We know what we have in Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and Sandman… we just can’t crack Sandman.’ You can’t crack it, because it’s too big!”

“I suspect in a weird way, the fact that they took a tiny fragment of Sandman and now it’s one of Fox’s biggest hits might actually convince people to do the classy TV series I’ve been suggesting they do for 15 years now. For a long time, I’ve been saying with a movie, you’ll have to throw so many things out. Why not take all the things that make [it difficult to adapt], take all the bugs in Sandman, and make them features. The fact that you have 75 issues, plus a whole bunch of stories? You have 80 episodes. That’s a good thing! The fact that you have adult themes and adult things? That’s now a good thing. It will be very strange to take Sandman to TV, but I really do think it’s the most important thing we could do. And I hope if American Gods goes big? Between that and Lucifer, that could help.”

so sorry wrote:Netflix's Sandman casting news

I don't know jack squat about this comic book series, other than it always looked like a 90s/The Crow/Goth-crowd favorite, byt whenever this gets around to being made I might give it a go.

The lead looks like he stepped right off stage at a Cure concert.